RUSSIA: Watch on the Wall

The face that Moscow turned to the world this week was, except for the
missing mustache, disconcertingly the samefat, inscrutable,
steelyeyed. Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov and his fellow heirs to
the proletarian kingdom of Joseph Stalin had stepped into power with
every outward sign of unity.

On the big Red Square tomb, where on state occasions Russian bigwigs
customarily line up in careful order like squat tenpins, state
sculptors chiseled the name CTARNH (Stalin) just below Lenin's. Presses
began to grind out millions of copies of the three funeral orations by...